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In October 1953 Qibya was the target of an Israeli raid known as the [[Qibya massacre]] by [[Unit 101]] commanded by [[Ariel Sharon]] which resulted in the death of 67 or 69 unarmed civilians and large-scale destruction of the village. On October 18, 1953, the U.S. State Department issued a bulletin expressing its ''"deepest sympathy for the families of those who lost their lives"'' in Qibya as well as the conviction that those responsible ''"should be brought to account and that effective measures should be taken to prevent such incidents in the future."''<ref>[http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/mid009.htm The Department of State issued a statement] on Oct. 18, 1953 (Department of State Bulletin, Oct. 26, 1953, p. 552).</ref> The United States temporarily suspended economic aid to Israel.
In October 1953 Qibya was the target of an Israeli raid known as the [[Qibya massacre]] by [[Unit 101]] commanded by [[Ariel Sharon]] which resulted in the death of 67 or 69 unarmed civilians and large-scale destruction of the village. On October 18, 1953, the U.S. State Department issued a bulletin expressing its ''"deepest sympathy for the families of those who lost their lives"'' in Qibya as well as the conviction that those responsible ''"should be brought to account and that effective measures should be taken to prevent such incidents in the future."''<ref>[http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/mid009.htm The Department of State issued a statement] on Oct. 18, 1953 (Department of State Bulletin, Oct. 26, 1953, p. 552).</ref> The United States temporarily suspended economic aid to Israel.


Qibya received intense media coverage again in the run-up to the 2001 Israeli general election when it was correctly forecast that Sharon would become the next Israeli Prime Minister.<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/feb/04/israel Guardian] From butcher to 'Lion' to Prime Minister of Israel by Jason Burke 4 February 2001</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 19:56, 20 October 2012

Template:Infobox Palestinian Authority municipality Qibya (Arabic: قبية) is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 30 kilometers (19 mi) northwest of Ramallah and exactly north of the large Israeli city of Modi'in. It is part of the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, and according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of approximately 4,901 in 2007.[1]

History

Ottoman period

In 1596, Qibya appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Ramla of the Liwa of Gaza. It had an entirely Muslim population of 29 households and paid taxes on wheat, barley, summer crops, olives, fruit trees, lintels, goats and/or beehives and a press for olives or grapes.[2]

In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described the village (then named Kibbiah), as "a very small hamlet with olive-trees, on high ground".[3]

British Mandate period

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the village, (named Kibbia), had a population of 694, all Muslims.[4] In the 1931 census the population of Qibya was 909, still all Muslim, in 204 inhabited houses.[5]

In 1945 the population of Qibya was 1,250, all Arabs, who owned 16,504 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.[6] 4,788 dunams were used for for cereals,[7] while 32 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[8]

1948, and after

Massacre

In October 1953 Qibya was the target of an Israeli raid known as the Qibya massacre by Unit 101 commanded by Ariel Sharon which resulted in the death of 67 or 69 unarmed civilians and large-scale destruction of the village. On October 18, 1953, the U.S. State Department issued a bulletin expressing its "deepest sympathy for the families of those who lost their lives" in Qibya as well as the conviction that those responsible "should be brought to account and that effective measures should be taken to prevent such incidents in the future."[9] The United States temporarily suspended economic aid to Israel.


References

  1. ^ 2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.113.
  2. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 153
  3. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, p. 297
  4. ^ J. B. Barron, ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine. Table VII, Sub-district of Ramleh.
  5. ^ E. Mills, ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas (PDF). Jerusalem: Government of Palestine. p. 22.
  6. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in S. Hadawi, Village Statistics, 1945. PLO Research Center, 1970, p. 68
  7. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in S. Hadawi, Village Statistics, 1945. PLO Research Center, 1970, p. 116
  8. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in S. Hadawi, Village Statistics, 1945. PLO Research Center, 1970, p. 166
  9. ^ The Department of State issued a statement on Oct. 18, 1953 (Department of State Bulletin, Oct. 26, 1953, p. 552).

Bibliography

External links

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Qibya&diff=518916743&oldid=518908784

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